June 9, 2010 by Bill Bradley
“Make each day your masterpiece†John Wooden HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: The Best Coach Ever Competencies: leadership, coaching talent, achievement, teamwork, team development, team building, trustworthiness, vision/goal setting, collaboration, decision-making, judgment, managing self, self-control, self-development Who benefits: all of us, including young children and teens Consultant Usage: especially useful for executive coaches, team […]
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June 8, 2010 by Wally Bock
Phillip is an engineer. His company has a lot of them and he’s right in the middle of the pack. You’d never know he was a star. Florence is an admin assistant. If you look on the org chart or the formal performance evaluations, you’ll see that Florence is competent and hardworking, but nothing special. […]
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June 6, 2010 by Ken Nowack
“Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save” Will Rogers My wife and I have been involved in a wonderful volunteer program raising guide dog puppyies for the blind in California called Guide Dogs of America for about 15 years. Not long ago […]
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June 3, 2010 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find you the pick of the lot for the week. In this post, you’ll find pointers to pieces about succession planning, the view from inside the pipeline, studies of engagement, flex time and Gen Y, and the Talent Management Paradox. From the Employee Performance and […]
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June 2, 2010 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: What It Takes to Make ‘Star’ Hires Pay Off Competency: talent management Who benefits: managers and supervisors of high potential new hires Consultant Usage: very useful article for employee relations and compensation consultants, good background for career counselors What’s it about? “Many companies hire top-notch talent but then fail […]
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June 1, 2010 by Wally Bock
Want to make a difference in your bottom line? How about your long term competitive advantage? Well, you can probably do it, if you’ll just spend some time and resources on who you promote to your first line supervisory positions. They’re important. And you don’t have to take my word for it. In 2005, Fast […]
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May 27, 2010 by Wally Bock
Every week, I review blogs that cover talent development to find you the pick of the lot for the week. In this post, you’ll find pointers to pieces about talent intelligence, metrics, a defense of the performance review, and ten ways to make a performance review meaningful. From HRM Today: Talent Intelligence “Among the excellent […]
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May 26, 2010 by Bill Bradley
HOT READS FOR THE PRACTITIONER Title: Better, but not easy, time management Competencies: time management, teamwork, team leadership Who benefits: employees at any level, team leaders Consultant Usage: good stories for trainers and coaches of time management What’s it about? Came across a couple of blogs lately that focused on time management both at the […]
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May 25, 2010 by Wally Bock
A couple of years ago, Susan got promoted. Her boss made her a team leader. There would be a new title and more money. It looked great for about a day. “Why do those people keep coming into my office and whining?” Susan asked, after her first day in the new job. “Why don’t they […]
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May 23, 2010 by Ken Nowack
“Sticks and stones will break my bones but names will never hurt me.” Anonymous We are raising our third guide dog puppy for the blind (Guide Dogs of America). He’s nearing the end of his journey with us and we will have him for about 4 to 6 more months. He came from the “A” […]
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